Federal Official Gazette
On January 12th, 2020, the Secretariat of Economy (SE) published in the Federal Official Gazette (DOF), the PROJECT of Official Mexican Standard PROY-NOM-236-SE-2020, which establishes the technical inspection criteria to determine the physical-mechanical conditions of vehicles with a gross vehicle weight that does not exceed 3,857 kg, to circulate under security conditions in the national territory.
Likewise, it determines the minimum requirements and obligations that must be met for the conformity assessment, the bodies authorized for the technical inspection of the physical-mechanical conditions of the vehicles.
• Field of application
This Draft Mexican Official Standard is applicable to vehicles with a design gross vehicle weight that does not exceed 3,857 kg to circulate under safety conditions in the national territory in accordance with the criteria established in this Mexican Official Standard Project.
Except from the above, those vehicles with a design gross vehicle weight of less than 400 kg, those used in agricultural work, vehicles oriented to be used in mountainous or desert terrain, as well as in areas of beaches and railways.
Also excluded are vehicles registered as vintage cars, vehicles associated with dedicated machinery for the construction and mining industries. Other excluded vehicles are those destined exclusively to circulate in confined roads such as racetracks, airports, go-kart tracks, or other similar field of transport.
•General disposition
Vehicles that require to undergo technical inspection to determine their physical-mechanical conditions by regulations of any government order, will do so following the provisions of this draft of Official Mexican Standard.
Said technical inspection may be carried out in conjunction with other programs or instruments issued by the authorities of any order of government, such as periodic environmental verification programs.
Vehicles will undergo technical inspection at the following intervals:
a) Private transport vehicles: four years after the date of their commercialization as a new vehicle, and thereafter every two years until the ninth year;
b) Private transport vehicles 10 or more years after the date of their commercialization as a new vehicle: every year
c) Intensive use vehicles: one year after the date of their commercialization as a new vehicle; and thereafter, every year;
It will be required by the competent authorities that the vehicles undergo technical inspection before the date indicated in the previous paragraphs in the following cases:
- When the authorities require technical inspection after an accident that classifies it as a total loss or when it has suffered significant damage that may affect any security element of the steering, suspension, transmission or brake systems, or the chassis, frame or self-supporting structure at the anchoring points of any of these, must be presented for inspection before being put back into circulation, in which it is ruled on the suitability of the vehicle to circulate on public roads.
- When the competent authorities determine it based on their corresponding legal instrument.
• Surveillance
The monitoring of this Draft Official Mexican Standard once it is issued as a Definitive Standard will correspond to the federal and local authorities based on their respective attributions.
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